Concert for America: A Tribute to Ronald Reagan

Today is the 101st Anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan, the man who became the 40th President of the United States of America. During his eight years in office, he turned America from a path of socialism and failure. He also saved the western world from the menace of Communism by defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War.


The above video is of the Concert for America that celebrated the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth that was hosted by the Reagan Foundation.

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Ronnie and Nancy

Today is the 101st Anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan. I can think of no better tribute to this great man than a video paying tribute to the relationship he and his wife, Nancy, shared.

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An Interview with Richard Cheney

Former Vice President Richard Cheney gave a lecture at the Reagan Foundation Library and sat down with an interview. Here is the Interview and then the lecture, which features hid daughter Liz Cheney. Richard Cheney is one of my favorite figures from the George W Bush Administration. These men served our nation nobly during a time of crisis. The Left will never forgive for that, the rest of of us will always be grateful that they stood firm in their resolve. I am confident that Richard Cheney will be remembered by history as one of the greatest Vice Presidents this nation has ever known. I thank God that he was part of the team that led our nation during and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.









Former Vice President Richard Cheney and his daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, discussed copies of their latest book, In My Time.


Few Americans alive today can match the breadth of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s service as a statesman, policymaker, and politician. The former Vice President has collaborated with his daughter Liz Cheney, attorney and former State Department senior official, in In My Time, to offer his reflections on world affairs, American politics and campaigns, conservative ideology, and the critical events of our era.
Across four decades of public life, including as the 46th Vice President of the United States, as our nation’s Secretary of Defense, as a Member of Congress from Wyoming and as the White House Chief of Staff to President Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney has served at the highest levels of government during some of the critical days in modern American history.


In 1991, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In the eight eventful years of the Bush presidency, the vice president was best known for his involvement in national security matters following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.


Liz Cheney is an attorney and specialist in U.S. Middle East policy. From 2005- 2006, she was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. In this capacity, she was the second-ranking State Department official responsible for U.S. policy in the Middle East. Prior to that, Ms. Cheney served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from 2002 to 2004. She is also a member of the International Board of Visitors at the University of Wyoming, and chairman of the board of the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, DC.


She collaborated with Vice President Cheney on his memoirs, covering 40 years of his career in Washington.


If you wish to purchase an autographed copy of In My Time, click here.


Source: Reagan Foundation

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Republican Candidates Debate at the Reagan Library

The candidates in the Republican Party 2012 Presidential nomination race participated in a forum at the Reagan Presidential Library last night, an event that is recognized as the official kickoff in the primary season.

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Wherein Freedom Works Prepares to Commit Suicide

FreedomWorks, one of the largest and most influential national Tea Party groups, is planning to devote its considerable resources toward uniting the grassroots "movement" behind whoever emerges as the most electable alternative to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the Huffington Post reports.

“I don’t think I’ve met any groups or any local activists that like him or want him to be president,” Tea Party activist Brendan Steinhauser said. “They just don’t believe he’s authentic. That’s the biggest problem in addition to the health care thing.”

Source: Business Insider

Commentary

If Freedom Works does not want Romney to win the nomination, their best move would be to get all but one of the dozens of conservatives running in the primary to drop out. By focusing their attention against Romney, all they'll achieve is to unify the other factions of the GOP to seek Romney as the alternative to the Tea Party. The libertarians who think they run Freedom Works are nothing but trouble, and seem to prefer attacking their fellow Republicans than actually winning elections. Dick Armey and Brendan Steinhauser are not part of the libertarian wing, but have jumped onboard because they see it as a vehicle to ever more power, the same way they jumped onboard the Tea Party movement. I have video of Brendan claiming that in Franklin . Click here to see it. Before the meeting started, I approached the leader of the local Freedom Works chapter about what I should do in order to create a local Tea Party. He eventually locked me out of the process and made it a creature of his organization.

One would hope that they'd follow Reagan's 11th Commandment or perhaps his advice on political compromise. Like children, they seem focused on an all-or-nothing attitude that has previously been the position of the crazy Ron Paul Supporters.

Competing for power does ugly things to people and organizations. This is a train wreck that may end up costing the eventual nominee of the party the election.

I see nothing good coming out of this move because they will try to take ownership of the whole thing...and they'll be responsible for the chaos and destruction a second Obama Administration will sow in our Republic. I am nervous about the eventual implementation of ObamaCare and think that most people have no idea that insurance rates will soar higher than they ever were before because of the government interference in the free market. I don't know if elected Republicans will have the spine to stand up to him. Time will tell.

As for me, I believe that Mitt Romney will be the nominee of the Republican party. If that happens, I will work as hard as I can to get him elected....because, despite his shortcomings...he would be a better choice that Barack Obama. Anyone who can't see that is a fool who deserves to live under a second Obama Administration.

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The Man Who Won The Cold War: Ronald Reagan's Berlin Wall Address

This post was inspired by the thread paying tribute to the 100th Anniversary to Ronald Reagan's birth on Conservative Thunder...



"Tear down this wall!" was the challenge from United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall.


In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin, by the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, Reagan challenged Gorbachev, then the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to tear it down as a symbol of Gorbachev's desire for increasing freedom in the Eastern Bloc.







Transcript:

Chancellor Kohl, Governing Mayor Diepgen, ladies and gentlemen: Twenty-four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin, speaking to the people of this city and the world at the City Hall. Well, since then two other presidents have come, each in his turn, to Berlin. And today I, myself, make my second visit to your city.


We come to Berlin, we American presidents, because it's our duty to speak, in this place, of freedom. But I must confess, we're drawn here by other things as well: by the feeling of history in this city, more than 500 years older than our own nation; by the beauty of the Grunewald and the Tiergarten; most of all, by your courage and determination. Perhaps the composer Paul Lincke understood something about American presidents. You see, like so many presidents before me, I come here today because wherever I go, whatever I do: Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin. [I still have a suitcase in Berlin.]


Our gathering today is being broadcast throughout Western Europe and North America. I understand that it is being seen and heard as well in the East. To those listening throughout Eastern Europe, a special word: Although I cannot be with you, I address my remarks to you just as surely as to those standing here before me. For I join you, as I join your fellow countrymen in the West, in this firm, this unalterable belief: Es gibt nur ein Berlin. [There is only one Berlin.]


Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. From the Baltic, south, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs, and guard towers. Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same--still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state. Yet it is here in Berlin where the wall emerges most clearly; here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the mind of the world. Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar.


President von Weizsacker has said, "The German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is closed." Today I say: As long as the gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the German question alone that remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind. Yet I do not come here to lament. For I find in Berlin a message of hope, even in the shadow of this wall, a message of triumph.


In this season of spring in 1945, the people of Berlin emerged from their air-raid shelters to find devastation. Thousands of miles away, the people of the United States reached out to help. And in 1947 Secretary of State--as you've been told--George Marshall announced the creation of what would become known as the Marshall Plan. Speaking precisely 40 years ago this month, he said: "Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos."


In the Reichstag a few moments ago, I saw a display commemorating this 40th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. I was struck by the sign on a burnt-out, gutted structure that was being rebuilt. I understand that Berliners of my own generation can remember seeing signs like it dotted throughout the western sectors of the city. The sign read simply: "The Marshall Plan is helping here to strengthen the free world." A strong, free world in the West, that dream became real. Japan rose from ruin to become an economic giant. Italy, France, Belgium--virtually every nation in Western Europe saw political and economic rebirth; the European Community was founded.


In West Germany and here in Berlin, there took place an economic miracle, the Wirtschaftswunder. Adenauer, Erhard, Reuter, and other leaders understood the practical importance of liberty--that just as truth can flourish only when the journalist is given freedom of speech, so prosperity can come about only when the farmer and businessman enjoy economic freedom. The German leaders reduced tariffs, expanded free trade, lowered taxes. From 1950 to 1960 alone, the standard of living in West Germany and Berlin doubled.


Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany--busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of parkland. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's abundance--food, clothing, automobiles--the wonderful goods of the Ku'damm. From devastation, from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once again ranks as one of the greatest on earth. The Soviets may have had other plans. But my friends, there were a few things the Soviets didn't count on--Berliner Herz, Berliner Humor, ja, und Berliner Schnauze. [Berliner heart, Berliner humor, yes, and a Berliner Schnauze.]


In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you." But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind--too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.


And now the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be coming to understand the importance of freedom. We hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and openness. Some political prisoners have been released. Certain foreign news broadcasts are no longer being jammed. Some economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from state control.


Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures, intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system without changing it? We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace.


General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!


I understand the fear of war and the pain of division that afflict this continent-- and I pledge to you my country's efforts to help overcome these burdens. To be sure, we in the West must resist Soviet expansion. So we must maintain defenses of unassailable strength. Yet we seek peace; so we must strive to reduce arms on both sides.


Beginning 10 years ago, the Soviets challenged the Western alliance with a grave new threat, hundreds of new and more deadly SS-20 nuclear missiles, capable of striking every capital in Europe. The Western alliance responded by committing itself to a counter-deployment unless the Soviets agreed to negotiate a better solution; namely, the elimination of such weapons on both sides. For many months, the Soviets refused to bargain in earnestness. As the alliance, in turn, prepared to go forward with its counter-deployment, there were difficult days--days of protests like those during my 1982 visit to this city--and the Soviets later walked away from the table.


But through it all, the alliance held firm. And I invite those who protested then-- I invite those who protest today--to mark this fact: Because we remained strong, the Soviets came back to the table. And because we remained strong, today we have within reach the possibility, not merely of limiting the growth of arms, but of eliminating, for the first time, an entire class of nuclear weapons from the face of the earth.


As I speak, NATO ministers are meeting in Iceland to review the progress of our proposals for eliminating these weapons. At the talks in Geneva, we have also proposed deep cuts in strategic offensive weapons. And the Western allies have likewise made far-reaching proposals to reduce the danger of conventional war and to place a total ban on chemical weapons.


While we pursue these arms reductions, I pledge to you that we will maintain the capacity to deter Soviet aggression at any level at which it might occur. And in cooperation with many of our allies, the United States is pursuing the Strategic Defense Initiative--research to base deterrence not on the threat of offensive retaliation, but on defenses that truly defend; on systems, in short, that will not target populations, but shield them. By these means we seek to increase the safety of Europe and all the world. But we must remember a crucial fact: East and West do not mistrust each other because we are armed; we are armed because we mistrust each other. And our differences are not about weapons but about liberty. When President Kennedy spoke at the City Hall those 24 years ago, freedom was encircled, Berlin was under siege. And today, despite all the pressures upon this city, Berlin stands secure in its liberty. And freedom itself is transforming the globe.


In the Philippines, in South and Central America, democracy has been given a rebirth. Throughout the Pacific, free markets are working miracle after miracle of economic growth. In the industrialized nations, a technological revolution is taking place--a revolution marked by rapid, dramatic advances in computers and telecommunications.


In Europe, only one nation and those it controls refuse to join the community of freedom. Yet in this age of redoubled economic growth, of information and innovation, the Soviet Union faces a choice: It must make fundamental changes, or it will become obsolete.


Today thus represents a moment of hope. We in the West stand ready to cooperate with the East to promote true openness, to break down barriers that separate people, to create a safe, freer world. And surely there is no better place than Berlin, the meeting place of East and West, to make a start. Free people of Berlin: Today, as in the past, the United States stands for the strict observance and full implementation of all parts of the Four Power Agreement of 1971. Let us use this occasion, the 750th anniversary of this city, to usher in a new era, to seek a still fuller, richer life for the Berlin of the future. Together, let us maintain and develop the ties between the Federal Republic and the Western sectors of Berlin, which is permitted by the 1971 agreement.


And I invite Mr. Gorbachev: Let us work to bring the Eastern and Western parts of the city closer together, so that all the inhabitants of all Berlin can enjoy the benefits that come with life in one of the great cities of the world.


To open Berlin still further to all Europe, East and West, let us expand the vital air access to this city, finding ways of making commercial air service to Berlin more convenient, more comfortable, and more economical. We look to the day when West Berlin can become one of the chief aviation hubs in all central Europe.


With our French and British partners, the United States is prepared to help bring international meetings to Berlin. It would be only fitting for Berlin to serve as the site of United Nations meetings, or world conferences on human rights and arms control or other issues that call for international cooperation.


There is no better way to establish hope for the future than to enlighten young minds, and we would be honored to sponsor summer youth exchanges, cultural events, and other programs for young Berliners from the East. Our French and British friends, I'm certain, will do the same. And it's my hope that an authority can be found in East Berlin to sponsor visits from young people of the Western sectors.


One final proposal, one close to my heart: Sport represents a source of enjoyment and ennoblement, and you may have noted that the Republic of Korea--South Korea--has offered to permit certain events of the 1988 Olympics to take place in the North. International sports competitions of all kinds could take place in both parts of this city. And what better way to demonstrate to the world the openness of this city than to offer in some future year to hold the Olympic games here in Berlin, East and West? In these four decades, as I have said, you Berliners have built a great city. You've done so in spite of threats--the Soviet attempts to impose the East-mark, the blockade. Today the city thrives in spite of the challenges implicit in the very presence of this wall. What keeps you here? Certainly there's a great deal to be said for your fortitude, for your defiant courage. But I believe there's something deeper, something that involves Berlin's whole look and feel and way of life--not mere sentiment. No one could live long in Berlin without being completely disabused of illusions. Something instead, that has seen the difficulties of life in Berlin but chose to accept them, that continues to build this good and proud city in contrast to a surrounding totalitarian presence that refuses to release human energies or aspirations. Something that speaks with a powerful voice of affirmation, that says yes to this city, yes to the future, yes to freedom. In a word, I would submit that what keeps you in Berlin is love--love both profound and abiding.


Perhaps this gets to the root of the matter, to the most fundamental distinction of all between East and West. The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront. Years ago, before the East Germans began rebuilding their churches, they erected a secular structure: the television tower at Alexander Platz. Virtually ever since, the authorities have been working to correct what they view as the tower's one major flaw, treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every kind. Yet even today when the sun strikes that sphere--that sphere that towers over all Berlin--the light makes the sign of the cross. There in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be suppressed.


As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: "This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality." Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.


And I would like, before I close, to say one word. I have read, and I have been questioned since I've been here about certain demonstrations against my coming. And I would like to say just one thing, and to those who demonstrate so. I wonder if they have ever asked themselves that if they should have the kind of government they apparently seek, no one would ever be able to do what they're doing again.


Thank you and God bless you all.


President Ronald Reagan - June 12, 1987

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Words of Wisdom from President Ronald Reagan on Political Compromise

Some words of wisdom from Ronald Reagan on political compromise:


When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it.


"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.


I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'


If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.


Source: An American Life [link to Amazon]

Commentary 

I am posting these words as a direct refutation to some of the supporters of Timothy Johnson for the position of NCGOP Chair since the announcement that Tom Fetzer will be stepping down on January 15, 2011.


These people would have the Republican party of North Carolina squander what it won in this past election by placing 'an ideologically pure' man in as chairman of the party who seems to have a history creating division where ever he goes.


Some of them have threatened to leave the Republican party [alternate link since Yelton deleted his comment from Facebook] and form a third party. I wish that they would, so that they might leave room for the adults to get something constructive done while they are at the Children's Table.

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Annual Reagan Lecture Delivered by Mitt Romney

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney delivered the Annual Reagan Lecture at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Tuesday, May 25, 2010. In his latest book, Governor Romney proposes simple solutions to rebuild industry, create good jobs, reduce out of control spending on entitlements and healthcare, dramatically improve education, and restore a military battered by eight years of war.




For more information please visit President Reagan's Foundation. 

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A Video Comparison of the Differences Between Reagan and Obama

A vast gulf separates Reagan and Obama. Courage and Cowardice. Right and Wrong.

At least Carter (in his bumbling way) tried to punish Russia for invading Afghanistan by not going to the Olympics. This guy, Obama, is inviting the Iranians over for hot dogs to join us in celebrating our freedom while Iranian students lie bleeding or dead while fighting for their freedom.

This guy, Obama, makes Carter look like Churchill in comparison.

Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit, who has more.

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In Memoriam: Ronald Wilson Reagan 1911-2004

I thank God that such a man lived among us, and that we had the distinct honor and privilege to be led by him.

The above video is a tribute to the life of Ronald Reagan, one of the greatest Presidents our nation has been blessed with...

Here are a few of my favorite Reagan quotes, beginning with perhaps the most apropos of the current attempts by lefties to institute socialized medicine:

But at the moment I'd like to talk about another way because this threat is with us and at the moment is more imminent. One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. . . . Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. We have an example of this. Under the Truman administration it was proposed that we have a compulsory health insurance program for all people in the United States, and, of course, the American people unhesitatingly rejected this.

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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

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There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

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To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

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We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

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We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

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Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

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This man shaped my life. Ronald Reagan won me over to conservatism, got me to reading about conservative ideas. I consider him my political father.

Here is one of President Ronald Reagan's greatest speeches, his address at Point Du Hoc, France on the 40th anniversary of D-Day:

Part One




Part Two

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Morning Update on the Swine Flu "Pandemic" for 05-01-2009

**7.52am** update at end of post.

Graph: Total Swine Flu Cases in the USA

It is a very good sign that the rate of infection is not accelerating, although I want to wait at least a week or two before I firmly denounce this whole thing a case of media hysteria and over-reaction by the government.

By overstating the danger from this infection, and quickly moving to act on the event...it is a win-win situation for the government because if there is little danger of this thing killing as many people as the regular flu...then they can claim a success in stopping the disease. They can say.... "give us more money and we can stop even worse stuff than this."

If the Swine Flu of 2009 turns out to be able to kill tens of thousands, then they can say..."we didn't have enough money, give us more money so we can be better prepared."

Remember that the more money government (Federal, State, and Local) pours into education...the worse the education system becomes. It will be the same with health care.

I am very dismayed at the World Health Organization (WHO), who (pun intended) appears to be stoking the fires of hysteria:

The plea came as the WHO raised the swine flu threat awareness level to 5 out of 6, indicating that the world is on the brink of a pandemic.
Holland and Switzerland both confirmed their first cases of swine flu on Thursday, bringing the total number of countries affected around the world to 11.

In Mexico there have been eight confirmed deaths from the virus, with another 160 suspected swine flu fatalities.
There have been 93 confirmed cases in the US, 19 in Canada, 13 in New Zealand, five in Britain, four in Germany, 10 in Spain, two in Israel, and one in Austria.
The US has confirmed the first death outside of Mexico on Wednesday, while a further "probable" case of swine flu has emerged in Glasgow, Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond told MSPs today. The new case is someone with travel links to an affected area, but he also disclosed that Iain and Dawn Askham - the first confirmed cases of the disease - had now been released from Monklands Hospital in Lanarkshire, where they had been receiving treatment in an isolation ward.
Dr Margaret Chan, the WHO director-general, urged all countries to activate their pandemic plans as she made the announcement on Wednesday night.
Phase 5 indicates that there is evidence of the virus being spread from human-to-human in at least two countries in one WHO region. Phase 6, the pandemic phase, is characterised by increased and sustained transmission in the general population.
Dr Chan said that the world was better prepared for an influenza pandemic than at any time in history.

Source: UK Telegraph

Hat Tip: Drudge Report

This is nuts. If we were to face a really virulent disease outbreak, how could we tell if it was a serious threat, other than by examining the real numbers and discounting the words coming out of their mouths?

You and I can do more than all the governments in the world put together to stop the spread of the Swine Flu by merely washing our hands, covering our mouths when we cough or sneeze, and by the frequent application of alcohol-based hand cleaners.

Stay safe, everyone...and don't panic just because someone on TV (or from the government) paints a bad picture so you will stay tuned to be scared even more.

Remember, no one said it better than Ronald Reagan when he said:

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are:

'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

**7.52am** Update: Then there are stories like this one circulating on the fringes...

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Joshua P Allem Pulls Back the Curtain on Current Events

Yesterday, Joshua P. Allem addressed some issues and made some observations that bear repeating. 

From his show description:

-- Michael Savage's take on Obama's Q&A and Spendulous package -- How did Ronald Reagan win 2 landslide elections without a single truth teller at his disposal? Jimmy Carter was in office and the only national media was ABC, NBC and CBS. There was no FOX News, no Rush Limbaugh, no internet. How did he do it? What did he know that we don't? Why is it that 20+ years after Rush Limbaugh and 10+ years after Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Michelle Malkin, FOX News, the internet and conservative bloggers, THAT SOCIALISM STILL CONTINUES TO TAKE OVER THIS COUNTRY? --

Show Page

Josh's Blog 

This show is especially for Christian Conservatives, and if you are a Christian, this show is for you. If you are not a Christian, or are a fake Christian, then don't listen because you will be offended.

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President Ronald Reagan Inaugural Address January 20, 1981

President-elect Barack Hussein Obama will be sworn in on January 20, 2009. He will give a speech on that day.

Here is the speech President Ronald Wilson Reagan gave on January 20, 1981:

Obama would do well to listen to his words, and heed them...

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Ronald Reagan on Socialism & Liberalism

Over at the social network I founded this past summer, there is a video of a speech by Ronald Reagan that begins thusly:

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program. There are many ways in which our government has invaded the free precincts of private citizens, method of earning a living; our government is in business to the extent of owning more than 19,000 businesses covering 47 different lines of activity. This amounts to 1/5th of the total industrial capacity of the United States.

Check out the entire ten minute video at Carolina Conservatives. (I have rebranded the group from WNC Conservatives to reflect a wider target membership.

Reagan speaks from the grave against the progressive plans to destroy our way of life. Sadly...many Republicans have also fallen for the plan, or have been swayed by peer pressure.

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2004 GOP Convention Tribute to Ronald Reagan

In the next few weeks, the party conventions will be taking place, and I thought to share with you some memories from conventions past.

For me, these two videos stand in my memory paying tribute to my favorite President, Ronald Wilson Reagan.


Micheal Reagan's Comments


The GOP Tribute

I thank God that such a man lived.

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Barack Chamberlain Obama (updated)

Source: Ex Urban League

Commentary

The funny thing is, I found this photo while looking for one to phtoshop Obama's face onto Chamberlain's. Someone had beat me to it already. Great minds, and all that...only I'm not as swift as some.

There is this disturbing meme going around that any criticism of Barack Obama is not to be tolerated, and viewed by some as hypocritical.

One of the favorite things to bring up to try to justify Barack's desire to sit down with terrorists to negotiate was to bring up President Reagan sitting down with Soviet Permier Gorbachev in December of 1986 on the island nation of Iceland.

This shows an utter lack of knowledge of history...even history that we lived through.

What people are leaving out about the historic sit down was that it took place after Reagan had been President for nearly six years...and had built our military up into a force greater than any in the world.

Reagan had survived an assassination attempt, won a battle with an unruly union conducting an illegal strike, turned the American economy around from the "Carter Flu", and introduced us to the highly successful supply-side economics. He cut taxes...which served to stimulate the economy. He battled with progressives (called liberal at the time) over the deployment of Pershing nuclear-tipped missiles in Europe in response to Soviet intermediate-range missiles deployed on the Warsaw Pact side of Europe.

President Reagan met with Gorbachev in Iceland from a position, and history of, strength when facing opponents...be they foreign or domestic. Reagan walked out of the summit because Gorbachev insisted on linking SDI to the elimination of missiles in Europe.

What, if any, standing does Barack Obama have to claim that sitting down with Ahmadinejad is comparable to President Reagan sitting down with the Soviet Leader?

Let's take a look at what Ahmadinejad is engaged in here:

Iran is supplying weapons to terrorists that are killing American soldiers.


Let me repeat that for the slow-witted: Iran is supplying weapons that are killing American soldiers. They are supplying weapons to terrorists. The President of the United States of America does not go (hat in hand) to speak with people who are killing our soldiers.

Barack Obama is a first-term U.S. Senator with no foreign policy experience. He is a light-weight legislator who sat on his hands 130-plus times in the Illinois legislature because he was too terrified of ruining his political career with an unpopular vote.

Even the terrorist group Hamas has endorsed him, FARC loves him.

They see him as the best bet to further their evil agendas. They also view him as a light weight. He has no credibility as a tough negotiator.

They see a possibility that they could get another Jimmy Carter. Someone who will negotiate with North Korea...giving them nuclear weapons capability.

To compare Senator Barack Obama to President Ronald Reagan is to reveal yourself a Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance.

**update** 4.45pm

Barack Obama, the Glittering Jewel that he is, just can't help revealing himself to us. This is an excerpt from The Gateway Pundit:

Barack Obama on Appeasement
May 16, 2008--

"The U.S. should find a mechanism whereby the disaffected have an effective outlet for their grievances, which assures them they are getting social services... The U.S. needs a foreign policy that looks at the root causes of problems and dangers. (Obama compared Hezbollah to Hamas.) Both need to be compelled to understand that they’re going down a blind alley with violence that weakens their legitimate claims(?)... If they decide to shift, we’re going to recognize that. That’s an evolution that should be recognized."

Ok... "legitimate claims?"
Did Obama really say that?

What kind of legitimate claims is Obama talking about?

-- The right to Jerusalem?
-- The right to never recognize the raping enemy?
-- The right to burn the Zionists?

Be sure to read the whole post, then watch the President's speech again.

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